“I just off the phone with him,” Holley told 247Sports’ Luke Stampini. “He said he isn’t going. It’s not true.”

O’Brien, former Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith and current Texans interim coach Wade Phillips all have interviewed for the Texans head coaching position.

“The process has been under way, and it continues,” Texans owner Bob McNair told the Chronicle’s John McClain on Saturday night. “The process isn’t over. We have other candidates to interview next week.”